Subject: Re: pkgsrc-unofficial
To: Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/16/2003 11:09:45
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:10:22AM +0800, Rui-Xiang Guo wrote:
> In other word. Does it mean that we can let people who want to submit
> new pkgs commit their work into the 'unofficial' tree directly, then
> waiting for the pkgsrc developers to review them?

Yes.

> By this way, I think it is easier to let other people test the new pkgs
> than in PRs.

Exactly.
The hurdle to get people viewing at packages in PRs is much higher than
just a 'cvs update' and 'make install' somewhere.

> The FreeBSD guys have already done the similar thing.
> 	http://freebsd.netlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/outta-port/

Interesting. From a quick look, that's how I imagined it too.

 Thomas